How to compress image size without losing quality

Compress any image size without destroying its original quality. These are some of the best web application and Desktop application which help you to decrease the size of the image without destroying its quality. It basically reduces the image size by 30 to 35% of the original image size.

Why we need to compress image?
It is obvious that visitors spend more time on websites or blog which loads faster and have good visibility. To improve the website loading time, Web developers need to look at so many things including the number of loading resources, page cache, number of JS (JavaScript)/CSS files, HTTP requests, media files of less size etc. There are so many online free SEO tools available to measure the performance of your website or blog. Media files such as images are one of the most important parts of a website as it tells everything about your website or webpage, but at the same time, images are the bulkiest resources which take time to load on a webpage. If you can decrease the size of images by 25 – 30%, it will absolutely improve the website load time by a significant amount. Adobe Photoshop is having a nice feature to save the optimized version of images especially for web, but for this, you need to spend a big amount on purchasing Photoshop desktop application or the web version. In this post, we have listed few awesome and free online/offline tools to reduce image (JPEG, JPG, PNG) size by up to 80% to 90% without much effort and also without destroying its image quality.

Image compressing is an important task for SEO ranking, A website which loads faster have a good visitors count and watch time. A website which loads faster has high ranking than those websites which take a lot of time to open and load images.

Web Applications (websites)

1. kraken
2. imageoptimizer
3. smush
4. tinypng
5. compressjpg
6. punypng
7. jpegmini

1. kraken.io – If you need a free online application to compress image formats like JPEG, PNG, GIF, SVG to a point where the image doesn’t lose on quality, then it will be the best choice for you. we tried this application with an already compressed image using a desktop application, the result was unbelievable Kraken.io compress that image which is already compressed to an extra 10% without losing its quality. Firefox and Chrome extensions are also available for this application.

2. imageoptimizer.net – This is also a good platform for image compressing, you can upload the image from your local computer and give the image quality and size that you need. Image optimizer provides features (very limited) on the output and compression ratio.

3. smush.it – smush is one of a very popular website for compress images. There is uploader as well as URL box to provide the image. but there is no way to set the output quality, the smush.it uses auto-optimization for the image and compress the image to a limit which does not destroy it's quality.

4. jpegmini.com – To compress JPEG images up to 5X, you can checkout this tool. It also work similar to other web application upload the image from local computer compress it and download final output.

5. punypng.com – To compress PNG files, you can try punypng.com. Upload the image (PNG only) from the local computer and get the download of compress version of the image.

6. compressjpg.com and compresspng.com – For more control on the last result’s quality, I would suggest you to use this application. Once you upload the image from computer, a slider appears to auto-control the quality of the last image. There is a preview panel showing the changes according to the quality slider change, and there you can see the final image quality before downloading the image. There is a zoom-in/out feature also available in the preview where one can see the quality of the image pixel by pixel. Application is available on different domains for JPG and PNG images.


7. tinypng.org - Tp compress PNG images for the best level without affecting it's quality, you can try this tool also.

Desktop Applications (softwares)

1. IrfanView (for Windows platform available)
2. Trimage (for Linux, Windows, Mac platform available)
3. ImageOptim (for Mac platform available)
4. GimpShop (for Windows, Linux, Mac platform available)

1. IrfanView (for Windows platform available)  – To compress single or multiple images (bulk processing) than it can be a better choice for you, this is a must have tool if you are a web or app developer. You get full control for resizing the image compressing the images to its extent.

2. Trimage (for Linux, Windows, Mac platform available) – It is a cross-platform tool for optimizing PNG and JPG files. You can find the details on its GitHub page.

3. ImageOptim (for Mac platform available) – An amazing tool to optimize or compress the images. But it is currently available only for Mac platforms.

4. GimpShop (for Windows, Linux, Mac platform available) – It is one of the very popular and free alternative of Adobe Photoshop with so many tools to work on images including compression tool. Try out this tool.






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